Morocco's World Cup run is a victory for the whole Arab diaspora ✍️ Disputes between neighbours were waved off in the euphoria of it all and tickets for Friday's quarter-final are going for more than £2,000 🟢 GARSIDEK FIFAWorldCup
There is a great deal of support here for Palestine, caught as it is in the cross hairs of international relations and post-war settlements. Much of the ire and frustration felt by the hosts and other Arab countries taking part at this World Cup over the criticisms made by the Western media about human rights abuses in Qatar and other Arab States, is sourced in the unconditional support of Western governments for the state of Israel.
The repeated failure of the West to condemn or admonish Israel over the illegal occupation of parts of Palestine, or pontificate over, is an open wound that will never heal until there is a shift in thinking by all parties in the Middle East. The complexities involved are compounded by political regimes in some Arab countries that are engaged in interminable conflicts with their own people. In this context, sport, and particularly football, becomes a great unifying force harnessing emotion in a wholly positive way. There was not a hint of menace or trouble among the thousands making their way back to their billets from the Education City Stadium.
The ultimate seal of approval, of course, came from mum. The picture of Hakimi receiving the adoration of his mother, who, when he was a boy in Getafe, a perimeter town to the south of Madrid, earned her living as a cleaner. There is no metric to measure the emotion captured in that shot, which was a world away from the mundane labours of that distant life in Spain.
Tickets for Friday’s quarter-final against Portugal at the 40,000-capacity Al Thumama Stadium are already trading at 10 times face value, more than £2000. And the demand is not coming from those wishing to attend what might be. It is coming from an Arab community hoping to bear witness to the historic march of Arabian football in the blood red shirts of Morocco, a story of rare acclaim and positivity for a region that has taken an ethical beating at World Cup 2022.
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